Sumi Mehta

Sumi Mehta is the vice president of environmental and climate health at Vital Strategies, has over twenty years of experience in air pollution, health and development. Mehta is author of Rising Tides, but Missing the Boat: Do Nationally Determined Contributions Neglect Health, Air Quality and Social Vulnerability?

Luciana Messias dos Santos, 29, cooks using firewood outside her home in the Estrutural favela in Brasilia, Brazil, August 31, 2022.
Poverty

Tackling Air Pollution Starts at Home

by Sumi Mehta, Michael Brauer, Chen Chen, Tom Frieden

Rapidly developing countries critically need clean household energy  

Sumi Mehta
Environment

Air Quality, Health, and Climate Conversations

by Sumi Mehta

More than 90 percent of the world breathes polluted air